Are you a technical debt generator? Do your co-workers cringe at the thought of having to work with your code? Clean code is the art of writing code humans can understand. Elevate your professionalism and increase your code quality by writing with the reader in mind! We'll walk through three core clean coding practices: 1) Select the right tool for the job. 2) Optimize the signal to noise ratio. 3) Create self-documenting logic. These practices are the foundation for a professional development career and provide developers a clear vocabulary for evaluating code quality.

This course provides a solid foundation for developing custom content management systems using the Drupal 7 Content Management Framework. Through dozens of thoroughly explained, direct demonstrations, you will learn how to be productive using the core tools and building blocks of a Drupal site: modules, themes, content types, nodes, menus, blocks, URL patterns, views, and more.

From developer to analyst, this course tackles a few big questions about big dаta: Why does this technology exist and why do I need it? How can I get the best out of it utilizing something familiar like SQL and how does this all fit together in an ever-evolving eco-system? This course will introduce the concepts of distributed computing, Hadoop and MapReduce and then goes into great detail into Apache Hive which is an SQL-like query language that can be used with Hadoop and NoSQL databases like HBase and Cassandra. The course presents some challenges you might experience solving real production problems and how Hive makes that task easier to accomplish.

Learn how to use jQuery to animate your web pages and jаvascript apps. This course covers basic, single method calls for animation as well as advanced animation patterns and techniques. Learn to animate your DOM elements in 2D and 3D, use animation queues, promises, and much more. Four real world projects are built, including a fully animated Buy Now button, an animated photo gallery, an animated pie chart control, and a basic video game framework.

Learn the latest in unit testing technology for C#, VB.NET (and other .NET languages) created by the original inventor of NUnit. xUnit.net is a free, extensible, open source framework designed for programmers that aligns more closely with the .NET platform.

Windows Embedded 8 Industry (in preview - at course creation time) will be the newest release to Microsoft's Windows Embedded family. It comes with a differentiated approach for OEMs and Enterprises, which distinguishes itself by licensing models and features. In this course Alexander Wechsler shows off the great opportunities as well as its limitations. In addition, he takes a deep dive under the hood, to show you what is possible, using a dedicated sample project - a digital signage device. Get ready to learn a lot of new and compelling features that have the potential to be great assets to solve problems in embedded projects.

REST is an overloaded, and thus misunderstood term in architectural circles these days. This course attempts to clear up some of the misunderstandings about REST as well as provide a more practical approach for designing RESTful solutions - both clients and services.

This course is a deep dive into advanced debugging on Windows. Learn how to use the powerful Debugging Tools for Windows debuggers as well as the internals of key Windows components to reduce the amount of time to resolution for tough bugs.

In addition to the well-publicized Code First approach to database development that the Entity Framework 4.1 provides, it also provides the DbContext API.

Direct2D is a native, immediate-mode, graphics rendering library that provides uncompromising performance. Its focus is on two-dimensional rendering, providing a rich array of primitives for rendering vector graphics, bitmaps and text.